Cornwall and Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)

Cornwall and Plymouth
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1994
MEPs	1
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Cornwall and Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering the county of Cornwall and the city of Plymouth in Devon, England.

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

The constituency was replaced by Cornwall and West Plymouth and a small part of Devon and East Plymouth in 1994, and these seats became part of the much larger South West England constituency in 1999.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	David Harris		Conservative
1984	Christopher Beazley		Conservative

European Parliament election, 1979: Cornwall and Plymouth^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Harris	94,650	55.1	N/A
	Labour	D. Leather	36,681	21.4	N/A
	Liberal	G. H. T. Spring	23,105	13.5	N/A
	Mebyon Kernow	Richard Jenkin	10,205	5.9	N/A
	Ecology	Edward Goldsmith	5,125	3.0	N/A
	United Against the Common Market	A. E. M. Ash	1,834	1.1	N/A
Majority			57,969	33.7	N/A
Turnout				35.0	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Cornwall and Plymouth^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Christopher Beazley	81,627	42.5	-12.6
	Social Democratic	Jonathan Marks	63,876	33.3	+19.8
	Labour	John Cosgrove	35,952	18.7	-2.7
	Independent	Anthony Parkyn	5,645	2.9	N/A
	Independent Liberal	Robin Trevallion	2,981	1.6	N/A
	Cornish Nationalist	James Whetter	1,892	1.0	N/A
Majority			17,751	9.2	-24.5
Turnout				37.9	+2.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Cornwall and Plymouth^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Christopher Beazley	88,376	38.9	-3.6
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Paul Tyler	68,559	30.2	-3.1
	Labour	Dorothy Kirk	41,446	18.3	-0.4
	Green	Howard Hoptrough	24,581	10.8	N/A
	Mebyon Kernow	Colin Lawry	4,224	1.9	N/A
Majority			19,817	8.7	-0.5
Turnout				41.9	+4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

England	Bedfordshire Birmingham North Birmingham South Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Durham Essex North East Essex South West Greater Manchester North Greater Manchester South Greater Manchester West Hampshire West Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Lancashire West Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire Liverpool London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South London South East London South Inner London South West London West Midlands Central Midlands East Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumbria Nottingham Salop and Stafford Sheffield Somerset Staffordshire East Suffolk Surrey Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne South and Wear Upper Thames Wessex Wight and Hampshire East Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South East Wales South Wales

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

Key

* Constituency created 1981

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